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Okay, that's coming up in thirty minutes at eight fifteen, The Downbeat
Singing Pumpkin, but you can pick up today in stores. I just got
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minutes ago. He said, they're not flying off the shelves. There's no
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that's okay. I've also because I used to work at both the Sports Authority
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some pumpkins there. Yesterday I did not Yes, you did, no,
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up. There's a percentage of which that were put up throughout the metro bikes
back in the time and eighty percent of them I think had Ryiner's face on
him saying I'm back. And I think there was like ten percent of each
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I don't think they're gonna have a long stay, but I shouldn't say that
live on the air. Sometimes I have trouble filtering my thoughts. Or Mikey
will do like five lives for him tomorrow. Yeah, I might be.
It could go either. A voice cut it live well. It was a
Max Scherzer start. Rangers came out the top of the first went three and
out. I was like, Okay, that sucks. Bottom of the first
those Scherzer gets through it, and you're sitting there going, okay, maybe
Max can fight fight this out. Felt like with fart on the mound that
the Diamondbacks would have a little bit of an advantage, just because we've seen
mac Chercher a couple of times. He didn't look sharp, and it felt
like three innings, four innings that would be great. And then after three
innings of work he can't come back out for the fourth because he got a
tight back. Mm hmm. Kind of A few wild things happened, including
what I thought was one of the great butt plays of our time. Turns
out it was off the elbow. Surprise, the elbow is and what was
hurting and that looked bad. That's what Boachie said after the game too about
that. Yo, you and him be texting each other. I thought it
was a butt play too. Yeah, it shure sortally looked like that.
But we also thought from where we were sitting in game seven of the Alcs
that Mitch Garver got hit on the tip of the pen. Yeah. Smoked
in the d Yeah, And we talked about it for a good five minutes
and then I was like, no, no, Ribs. Oh, we
didn't see the game because we were at the game. So first things First,
little lineup change. Did that throw you guys off a little bit?
To have Evan Carter batting clean up? Yeah, a little weird. I
kind of liked it, though, to get the right left right, left
right left thingying. Well. I liked it to possibly get Bombie an extra
at bat, you know, if the game was a big bullpen situation and
you had elongated you know, extra extra but at bats that you typically wouldn't
have because of the bullpen situation. I like that. I mean, I
thought that was pretty smart. And I'll be damned if he didn't deliver from
that fourth spot. That game was weird, man, And I think the
Rangers should feel, and we did say this in the beginning, and I
think it happens for every team, unless you're just the ninety eight Yankees,
that luck has to play a big part of your success in a playoff series.
No doubt, Scherzer was not good last night at all. He made
it three innings, but he was successful not because he made great pitches he
made. He was successful because his defense behind him was sick, absolutely sick.
Josh Young, Oh my god, that guy is an elite defensive third
baseman. If he wasn't already, you know, back in Tech he was
a shortstop and his kind of shifted him over it because he is insanely good
the plays that he was making, the plays that Simeon made, and then
the bombie assist saved his ass. He got his ass saved numerous occasions by
his defense last night, and you know what, that's part of it.
And he came out of that. Those three innings with no runs, gave
up no runs, so that the bottom of the second Christian Walker doubles.
And then when Tommy fam got his hit in the right field, I just
assume Christian Walker was stopping at third because of two things. A Adulas's arm
speaks for itself. We'll know that that's awesome. We seem to throw a
bunch of people out this year. And b as Danny reported to his last
week in the World Series preview, Christian Walker has one real leg. Yeah,
so for him to blow through that stop sign right there, but huge,
and that changed the whole game. I mean, remember that forever bottom
of the second, like it's weird that when once the game has completed,
the painting is finished, you can look back and find out those pivotal strokes
and not that someone getting thrown out at home plate is ever not important.
But I mean that was the play of the game because of tone everything.
What do you think of the third base coach on that play, because he
is doing the helicopter and then to switch it. I thought it was a
late, tall late I like to stop him, but I think that happens
probably all the time in those situations. Taught to watch him. You know,
Yeah, he had his head down. He never even peripherally looked up.
Well, yeah, he saw the send him right. Yeah. And
at that point, once he runs through the stop sign, then the third
base coach is like telling him, Okay, we'll get down down. Horrible
slide. Not that he was gonna be safe, but he didn't do himself
any favors at all by that ridiculous slide. I think I assumed he's gonna
be safe again. He's not the fastest dude. I know, Bombi's arm
is great, but I don't know it's You don't see very many thrown out
at the plates. It's a kind of a rarity Christian Walker slow though,
and that's kind of that's part of the thing. I didn't know that until
yesterday, but they were talking about like his age and all that stuff to
a big power hitter guy. But it kind of wasn't even close. I
mean, he had him by penny. He threw his whole pee into that
throw. I mean he ripped it and then that happens, but that could
be canceled out by them escaping a jam. Well, first of all,
run around second with one out in Chuser gets out of it, so credit
to Max for getting out of that too. Okay, go top the third.
Nate Low starts it off with a double. It's good to see him.
Yeah, he's he's been fine. It felt like he's contributed very at
a very even kill pace. Right. I think he's just is he just
behind Bombie in playoff RBIs he might be? I think he is, because
those guys have gotten halt. Yeah, and then Josh Young strikes out,
Leodi Tavers grounds out, so Nate Loo moves over to third. So it's
two outs Runner on third and Marcus Simeon, who we've been dying to do
something, just give us something. He loops one of the left field Finally
huge. Let me just go back to this micromanaging the first at bat of
the game. Okay, And I'm thinking, if we can get far out
of there and get to their wolfens tonight, send me and your leadoff hitter.
And it's three to one. Now, this is stupid because the Rangers
an aggressive hitting team. Marcus Simeon led the league in hits. If you
get one to hit, you know, let's go ahead and take a rip.
Right. But me, as I'm watching that game at three and one,
I'm going, don't swing. M't swing first batter of the game.
Let's make this guy work. He's gotta throw you at two strikes in a
row. He's gonna throw you two hit able pitches. You'll get a pitch
to hit on three two. Don't swing. Let's see if we can get
a walk here. That's what I'm saying in my head. Because on three
to one he does swig and pops up again, his twelve pop up of
the postseason, and I'm going, he's killing me. But then he comes
through with two outs fighting and then loops it, and then my god,
Corey Seeger extends the inning, gets a run and extends the inning to bring
up the man. He's a dragon, dude. He's vicious. Me,
yes, he is. I was trying. I mean, I'm not gonna
go hyperbole, but he's like the among the coolest, and I mean that
not like cool guy, like just the low heartbeat, quietest, greatest things
that's ever happened around here, like in any sport. Like, don't you
get the sense that he gives zero sys about Look at me, I'm the
best player on this team, genuinely, Like some people play that role,
you know, and like try to act cool, even like Luca. Luca
cares about being the best player on the MAVs. He is and deep down
he it's a priority for him. But like, I don't think Corey Seger
gives a damn. He's just he's so quiet and perfect and good, I
don't know, like the most low key maybe best player in the sport,
yeah, that I've ever seen, and he is on that level, Like
he without question, maybe the best baseball player in the world. Bobby gets
the attention just because the wild swings the drama with every bat, his personality
animated and he delivers obviously, But as far as just consistently and well,
he plays baseball like a freaking serial killer assassin. He just like he's lying
under the brush with his camouflage on and you don't really notice him until before
you know it, you're you're getting a head shot and you're freaking pumpkin explosion.
You're dead. And that's home, right. Yeah, he's sitting on
the couch, is disassembling his rifle, you know, putting it in its
bag, with his moss hanging off of him as he goes to the hum
V to go home and make dinner for his kids. How was your day
at work, honey? Fine? Fun, that was yours. I'm Corey
Seeker made him a psychotic serial killer, is dude. That's how he plays
the game offensively. It's sick. I'll good defensive places too, like well
of those double plays, well, like the game saving double play late but
yeah, do they have three double plays in this game? Three? The
one on Kettle Marte that was dope and I sure thought he was safe.
I think that's why they were all safe at the time, and they were
all called out and I'm like, oh, no, replay and then they
show it and they're all correct and for as big as he is at six
' four to play shortstop, that's not easy position to play a lot of
bending over, but he's so good. And they also, you know,
they made the bases a little bit bigger, so getting to first base.
Those are all closer plays than they've been the last since we've been watching baseball,
right, But they're all closer plays at first base. And he's like,
he knows to charge it, he knows the time, how much time
he has, how much heat to put on every throw to first base,
like he knows all that stuff. He might He's like, maybe is it
a great white shark that just quietly and slowly traverses the ocean as and then
eat your ass? Okay, right, yeah, get your hands in the
middle of the table. Let's put our hands together. You know, I'm
a half handed. There we go, and no, that's not what we're
gonna yell on three. We're gonna yell rangers. But that's what he is.
He's I don't know, I'm obsessed with staring at Corey seeger. I
also loved I just saw the interview before game one or game two, and
he's with Ken Rosenthal and they're just sitting there at Troy's at Texas Live because
they couldn't find a lot of good scenery and set up in the background.
He talked about Chris young Sells pitch to him to come here, which John
nanils probably have something to do with too, but whatever, and then he
mentioned when I found out Texas hadn't won a World Series before I knew,
I wanted to go there. And I think you're except a guy who hated
LA traffic and just Los Angeles. I'm sure you enjoyed his time as a
Dodger, but probably just didn't like all that and I protest in LA.
He wanted to go somewhere. He's from North Carolina. He wanted to go
somewhere where it's kind of chill and he's not asked to do media every single
day and he's still rocking that damn Roger Marris haircut. It's crazy, dude,
Roger Marri's face too. Yeah, I mean that dude is a is
a time traveler from nineteen sixty three or wherever whatever era he's from, and
his older brother Kyle was an awesome players and destroyed us. One of the
top ranger killers of our time. Salmon came from Seattle Settle or the Angels.
Oh my god. Good. But that was one of those things where
that interview when he said I knew that once I realized Texas, he had
to be He didn't know this. This is so that Texas hasn't won the
World Series before. I knew that was the place I wanted it to be.
That's ef and cool, like he could have played anywhere. We weren't
the only team that offered him that amount of money. We were not.
We offered him a toon, dude, but he was getting offers from other
teams for that amount, and he said, screw it, I want to
go to the place that hasn't won one before. I'm buying that. Yeah,
I'm buying that for some reason. I hope that's true or not.
I'm buying because I want to. I hope that's true versus the bag being
slightly larger here, but I don't really care at this point. And it's
like, if you have Adols Garcia as your best hitter, right, that
dude is straight up hot blood. You need someone cold blooded, and that
is Corey Seeger. Yes he's ice cold blood. And he continues to just
prove it, and it's almost like symbolic that in that game, Cory's in
game one whatever, Cory Seeger hit the game saving home run, and then
Adules hits the walk off and it's like, oh my god, Bomby and
it's like the psycho walks with his rifle in his suitcase back to his car.
Yeah, we celebrating the other day. While you guys are celebrating,
he's already got the silencer off the thing and walk into the parking lot.
See you tomorrow. I'll disposing his burner phone. Yes, already breaking the
phone, the back of breaking the sim card trash can and walk into the
parking lot. While Adols is doing a the full Dan dancing between third and
home. It's like, fine, I don't I love me some Adoles And
it's more fun and it's more everything, and you want to hug him,
but you have the cold blooded great white Yeah, and he keeps biting.
You. Also had the young gray wolf last night. Yeah, three innings,
three strikeouts, and he pitched the game two. You know, like
he and he's a starter all year long, and to just kind of morph
into multi inning bullpen guy. Because if you look at it and you just
go we had a Sures or Gray combine. Starting at worked he saved the
day and what Churezier got hurt, had to leave the game. Let's keep
the clock on time. At eight o'clock we will discuss kind of some of
the things that happened at the end of the game. We'll discuss the Adoble
Scarcia injury, the macchures are injury, what that means for tonight and what
that will mean for tomorrow. For game five is we are two games away
from winning the f and World Series. We'll continue that at eight o'clock and
at eight fifteen the debut of the Downbeat Singing Pumpkin. What a day.
But coming up next some new details on the Matthew Perry hot tub death.
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